Plant Zea mays (Poaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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Corn

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
QUERCETIN-3-O-ALPHA-D-RHAMNOSYL-O-BETA-L-GALACTOSIDE?	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSIDE	2	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-GLUCOSYL-O-ALPHA-L-GALACTOSIDE?	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-BETA-D-NEOHESPEROSIDE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-3-O-GLUCOSIDE-3'-O-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Pollen Or Spore	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUERCETIN-DIGLUCOSIDE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
QUINIC-ACID	1	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RAFFINOSE	1	Fruit	1000.0	3000.0	-1.00	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RESIN	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
RHAMNOGALACTURONAN-I	0	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RHAMNOSE	0	Silk Stigma Style	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Cob	1.0	3.0	not available	ANON. 1948-1976. The Wealth of India raw materials. Publications and Information Directorate, CSIR, New Delhi. 11 volumes.
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Fruit	1.0	4.0	-0.22	Duke, 1992 *
RIBOFLAVIN	15	Silk Stigma Style	not available	1.5	-1.00	Duke, 1992 *
RIBONUCLEASE	2	Tissue Culture	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RICINOLEIC-ACID	7	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
RUBISCO	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
SABINOL	5	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, J. A. Writeups or information summaries on approximately 2,000 economic plants, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD 20705.
SALICYLATES	7	Fruit	1.0	5.0	-0.32	Duke, 1992 *
SALICYLIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER	0	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antigastritic	5	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	4	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglycosuric	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigoiter	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	3	Jim Duke's personal files.
Antigout	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigranulocytopenic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihalitosic	3	American Health, 12(4): 17, 1993.
Antihangover	5	Duke, 1992 *
Antiheartburn	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihemolytic	2	Ohnishi, M., Morishita, H., Iwahashi, H., Toda, S., Shirataki, Y., Kimura, M., and Kido, R. 1993. Inhibitory Effects of Chlorogenic Acids on Linoleic Acid Peroxidation and Haemolysis. Phytochemistry. 36(3): 579-583. 1994.